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Americans and Europeans share many things, including a commitment to fundamental democratic principles, a strategic military alliance, and some of the highest living standards in the world. However, there still are some notable differences between the two sides of the Atlantic.

And one Reddit discussion draws attention to many of them in quite a funny way. Started by a person who goes on the platform by the nickname Mamutu7, it asked: "Europeans, what is something us Americans aren't ready to hear?" Immediately, people from the Old Continent started replying, and it became a lighthearted roast pretty quickly.

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Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear The European description for "Karen" is "American".

You love your army way too much, yet many veterans are left alone with ptsd after their service.

Bud Light is not even close of being a beer.

Your country is slowly evolving backwards atm (uprising racism, women don't have choice over their own body in way too many states, too much christianity b******t in politics)

EDIT: angry comments just show that you are indeed not ready to hear those things.

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Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear Tipping is stupid. Just pay your staff a proper living wage!

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Excuse the pun, but it seen we’re at a tipping point with tipping culture. Besides people making an average wage expecting tips for just doing their jobs, and restaurants asking for 20-25-30% tips, it’s really shone a spotlight on how stupid tipping culture is.

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Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear You actually have less freedom than most of the world. Your country is a pay to play.

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Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear It's neither normal nor okay to have to go bankrupt just to go to school or going to the hospital

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Buuuuut guuuuys, how else is the medical insurance industry supposed to make their billions in profit??? 👉👈🥺

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Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear Having school children recite the Pledge of Allegiance is creepy AF.

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Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear - Going to a hospital, calling an ambulance or getting education shouldn't ruin your life.

- You shouldn't have to be afraid of getting killed while at school.

- Education should be based on universal facts, not religion or some bigots opinion. You should have nation wide lesson plan, which covers the basics students need to master before they can move onto the next grade.

- Your worshipping on some politicans is scary and crazy. They're just humans, not rockstars or gods.

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Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear Sugar does not belong in everything, esp. not bread.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My brain agrees but my stomach disagrees. And my heart… probably diseased.

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Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear Nudity is not inherently sexual.

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Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear South Park shouldn't be a perfect documentary of your country

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Blame Canada for that. (Before downvoting, please watch the movie)

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Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear Having your national flag EVERYWHERE is ridiculous to most of us.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

From a German Pov this is just creepy as f**k. If someone has a German flag out, it's very clear they are the "village nazi". Football season is the only exception but even then some people feel uncomfortable

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Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear The rest of the world is much more advanced than you think

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We had friends from the US stay with us in Australia who had never seen a dual flush toilet & were surprised by the range of food available in Australian supermarkets

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Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear Extreme christianity.

All of them look crazy, and here in europa a lot of people are christian but dont make such a deal out of it to harass people.

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#13

Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear no, we aren't "jealous of your freedom". In fact, we feel your "freedoms" are quite limited,

and no, you are not the biggest democracy in the world...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Freedom from what? Freedom from fear of getting shot anywhere anytime? No. Fear of getting into debt for higher education? No. Fear of getting into debt from a hospital stay?.... I could go on but it would get embarrassing

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Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear We have pubs older than your country



Edit: Anyone getting angry about this comment, you're just proving my point lol.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I know people who live in a house where one of Henry the eighths wives was born. In the 1500s.

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Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear That america is not the place Europeans dream of moving to. It’s more of a nightmare.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wouldn’t move to America if you paid me. (No offence to any Americans reading this but your country is not a safe place to live)

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Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear Mandatory health insurance isn't communism.

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#17

Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear Stop confusing the word "Socialism" with "Communism" and "Fascism".

There is nothing wrong with trying to set up a system wherein people who could use some help actually get help.

(Yes, the system is imperfect but that goes for every system.)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Scare tactics by the Republicans to confuse the poorly educated (That's why Trump likes them.)

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Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear Guns are not something you need to protect, you’re children are.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The gun culture in general. I saw a pic the other day of a regular guy at a 4th July parade. He was carrying some sort of large gun. It was legal and acceptable. I just cannot fathom living in a society where that is considered normal.

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Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear 'Schools' which prioritize sports over education aren't schools; they're entertainment profit centers featuring underaged kids.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I taught "Rhodes Scholars" at Oxford, during their year of attending "Oxford" (which was only interested in their money, anyway). Never again... such low standard, such lack of "education". I let someone else do it and be pissed off.

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Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear Your most leftist politicians are actually central/right for European standards

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Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear And if your great-great-great grandparents moved from Norway to USA, start a family and generations later you were born, you are NOT norwegian. Your ancestors were, you have a bit of nordic blood in you, but you are still 100% american. Not norwegian. Not 25% irish, 10% swedish, 3% finnish, 17% norwegian, 5% danish... just plain american.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Kind reminder that there is no "Nordic blood," "Irish blood," "German blood" - blood has types, not nationalities. We've believed this in the past and it didn't do us any good 🙄

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Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear **So many of your problems are caused by your urban development.**

- The rise of religious extremism can be explained by churches being one of the very few places that fill the human need for community activities.

- The passion for guns would not be there if you didn't see the limits of your lawn as pretty much a border to be protected.

- The hate to spend public money on mental health, education, etc would not be there if you were cohabitating with the people harmed by those issues.

- Obesity would not be there if walkable spaces were common.

- Wars may not have been fought if society didn't depend as much on fuel costs being low.

- Your lack of free time to pursue hobbies is partly explained by extra long commutes


I could go on and on...

No wonder you see government as an oppressor of your freedom, and other people as threats: You go from the islands that are your workplace, your shopping space and your home in a car, as everything in between is unwalkable hostile territory.

Europeans spend their lives in common parks, squares, public spaces, social clubs, cafes, pubs... And feel 'at home' walking in between those spaces, since the space in between is a social area as well. That makes it natural to perceive yourself as part of the community, and feel a social obligation to do your part to maintain it (through taxes for example) which seems pretty much impossible in the American lifestyle.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a really interesting perspective that brings together a lot of things I’d seen in the US but not put together in this way!

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Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear Your car dependent infrastructure is terrible. You shouldn't be forced to own a car just to be able to go anywhere.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was stopped by a police officer in LA for walking. Seriously, he thought I was a sex worker (jeans, shirt, sneakers - screams sex worker!) because I wasn't driving the half mile from hotel to restaurant.

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Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear Healthcare *doesn’t* cost that much. It’s all HUGELY inflated

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cannot believe how much you have to pay for insulin, to take just one example.

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Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear The world isn't just america. The internet isn't just america.
You're like 3% of the world's population, stop assuming everybody is american... or cares about you. At all.



..also stop electing fascists.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Please stop thinking all Americans are the same. We are not. You see what the media wants you to see.

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Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear Europe is more than England and Paris.

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Healthcare is a human right. Not providing affordable healthcare to all Americans is an abomination.

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Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear Tipping culture is placing the working class against the working class. And you lot are falling for it instead of striking

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sooooooooo true. People rail against the customer for not tipping - rail against the business owners for not paying a decent wage!!!!

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Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear You're very loud as tourists. Speak at a normal volume, please.

Yes, I'm petty, and this is insignificant. Just wanted to say this for ages and finally got the chance 😂

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, not petty and it's not insignificant. I also agree and it highlights the 'Loud tourist' as American easily.

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Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear You are just a third world country that happens to own a lot of money.

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Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear Whats the deal with mega churches? Why do you send them that much money?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They are cults. They believe everything they are told and by sending the pastor money they will be 'Saved'!!

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You're not entitled to rule the world and you're not the moral compass of this world.

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Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear You don’t make tea in the f*****g microwave

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#34

There is something deeply wrong with your lack of real protests or even riots to end school shootings. In most human cultures losing that many kids regularly without lifting a finger to prevent it is unthinkable.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

the fact that people are so against gun control shows they feel someone's right to kill another person is more important that a child's right to go to school and not worry about being killed

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You can’t have a WORLD CHAMPION of anything if the said champion competed only against other people from the USA. USA is not equal to WORLD

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#36

Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear Europe and the European Union are not the same thing

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#37

Your republicans are makin’ ya look silly

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#38

Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear EpiPens cost $69 in the UK compared to the US $600 and yes the Pharm companies are making a profit.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A NHS prescription is currently £9.65 so it's a lot less than $69 here.

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Your food is killing you. Oh and you are not the best country on earth. Sorry to whatever propaganda they push at you all.

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Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear An American accent is still an accent!

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Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear 27 days of PTO is absolutely normal

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Youre treating a 300 year old piece of paper as the end all, be all of american civilization. Its not a perfect document, the founding fathers werent some demi-gods. In fact, the Magna Carta was a big influence on the founding fathers for both the Declaration of Independence as well as the Constitution.

Its okay to revise the constitution, its not some perfect thing. If it was, how come the founding fathers forgot to put the abolishion of slavery or womens right to vote at least in the bill of rights?

My point is, while the 2A may have made sense in a time where there was a threat of invasion from the english king and american settlers needed to have organised militias to be ready to defend their land, in todays world, yall are putting way too much emphasis on damn guns - to the detriment of your kids

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

the second amendment was dont at a time when people had single show muskets or pistols they could never have thought that there would be guns that fire thousands of rounds a minute also what possible use could you have at home for a magazine with 100 round capacity

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You complain about soccer being boring while the NFL has like 12 minutes of play over 3 hours.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

serious question why is it called football when you use your hands

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You really, really put too much importance on race.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is not as much about Americans, as it is about our media. Americans are not the government, or the TV programs with ads. We are just stuck sitting with them.

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#45

Your 2 party systems even more useless than ours.
Use metric. Use M-E-T-R-I-C!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It’s a system almost designed to create radicals on both sides

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#46

You do not need a 5000 pound truck to haul your laptop and cellphone to the office.

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#47

Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear Visiting European cities and telling us how different it is in America isn’t as good a conversation starter as you think. We know it’s different.

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#48

Hershey's chocolate tastes like sick.

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#49

Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear Yall spend too much time worrying about paying taxes and not enough time making sure your taxes go to the right programs.

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#51

Your government is as corrupt AF.
Your tax dollars are being spent on millitary programs that you will probably never find out about rather than being used to improve your infrastructure, less than a quarter of which could allow you all to have universal healthcare.

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#52

Before you visit a country educate yourself a bit about it. Like geography, culture, language/s, laws and yes a bit of political knowledge is also good.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But but then I can't make sad Pikachu face when I break a law or try to use my 'murican money at a shop

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#53

Middle grounds exist. It doesn’t always have to be pro this anti that.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There are other political parties but we never get to hear from them

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#54

Not everything is about military.

Saluting to random people is creepy and unsettling and they dont nessecerly deserve it

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Americans really fetishsize the military tellin somepne thank you for your service is stupid you dont do the same for doctors or fire fighters or police they all serve the country

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Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear It's okay not to have an opinion about everything.

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#56

You are not the freest people in the world. [You are not even in the top ten.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_World_Liberty_Index)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hah! Thanks for the link, apparently I live in the free-est country in the world!

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#57

Use Metric, will ya.

"3 football fields long" isn't a valid unit of measurement.

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#58

Europe isn’t a country

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#59

you should work to live not the opposite

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is sadly becoming the norm in some European countries

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Your culture war is bullcr*p that makes it impossible to tackle any real problems and improve the country, and the rest of the world suffers for it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But how else are the capitalists supposed to keep us workers at each other's throats instead of the capitalists'???

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We perfectly get that different states of the US can have very different culture and so on.

But believe me, it's the case in every country big enough in the world. I'm French, don't say to a Britton that he is the same than someone from Provence, it's like Maine and Florida here.. Same goes for Germany, a Bavarian is not at all a Hamburgian. Same in Italy, you can't really compare a Milanese from a Napolitanese.

That's one point.

And the second one is that different **countries** are really different from different states. We perfectly get the differences between this, but Americans tend to think we don't get it, and are trying to make us believe that Denmark and Portugal is the same difference than Washington and Mississippi.

Not, it isn't. It's really different. Having a different language is really, really something that change everything. You are suddenly unable to read anything and to communicate beyond very basic words. The law is totally different too, there isn't "european constitution" applying everywhere in every local law. But thinking that moving from one european country to another is like moving from one states to another is completly wrong. It apply very well inside the border of big enough country, but not outside of borders.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Belgium is very small. Longest distance you can travel without crossing a border is what, 230 km? Yet, someone living in West Flanders (coastline) compared to someone in Antwerp compared to someone from Liege... 3 different people.

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#62

Foods that are usually consumed within a couple of days doesn’t really need all that food-preservation chemicals

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Unless you're properly trained or you've done it before, you have no idea whether your gun will save you in a dangerous situation, the adrenaline might get to you or you might freeze up.

I'm not levelling this at all Americans or all gun owners but way to many folks think they're a badass just by owning a gun.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And no, you don't have a 'God given right' to a firearm like I have heard too often!

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#64

You're not the centre of the earth.

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Reciting the pledge of allegiance every day is weird, see also being obsessed with flags.

To the best of my knowledge the only 2 countries in the world where this happens is the US and North Korea, might be something to reflect on.

Edit: Initially wrote national anthem instead of pledge of allegiance, corrected it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Although I watch WAY more Euro-based sport than US sport (but watch a lot of that too) I've heard the US anthem a hundred-fold times more than any other.

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#66

You’re not Irish.

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#67

Having a two party system puts you in real danger of having a civil war ignite.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

With the way things are going over there right now I honestly wouldn’t be surprised to hear civil war had broken out. People are getting tired of being taken advantage of

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Europeans Call Out 50 "Hard Truths" That They Think Americans Are Not Yet Ready To Hear Your coffee is utterly s**t! And you pronounce words wrong.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Much like tastes, etymology evoles. Deal. You aren't still speaking old or middle English. So by your standards, you are pronouncing thing wrong. And spelling them wrong as well....

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I love having comfortable opportunities as a pedestrian.

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#70

You all seem to speak way too loudly for everyone else to have to hear your business, in trains, airports, restaurants, everywhere!
stfu the whole world does not revolve around you.
You are at an 8 volume, we need you at a 4.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nooooo... You hear the loud ones and do not hear the quiet ones. I have been to about 24 countries. You have never "heard my business". Meanwhile here in the USA (and abroad) I have heard obvious foreigners talking quite loudly. Are many Americans less reserved? Yes. Are we all loud and obnoxious? No.

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#71

That Europe is in fact a continent containing 50 countries and various cultures, and let's be real, "European" will never be an identity. People will always be their nation, or their ethny before being "European"

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mmmm, I'm not sure about the identity thing- I do definitely feel at least as much European as my actual nationality, having lived outside of my home country for so long.

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You have to actually protest if you want real change to come.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually, protesting is probably the worst thing you can do. The protests are usually taken over by extremists and the message gets lost in the ensuing violence. Protesting rarely works and often ends with the complete opposite outcome of the original goal.

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#73

Car-centric urban planning is eroding the fabric of American society.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's a big country. Drive 2 hours in Europe and you are literally in a different country speaking a different language. Drive 2 hours in my state and you are still well within my state...Drive 12 hours and you might be 3 states over...

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#74

The second amendment should be abolished.

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Worcestershire

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#76

Psssst there is oil on American soil

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Dear Passport Bros,

Looking for a 'traditional wife' somewhere overseas by flashing your cash and pretending to be rich will only get you a foreign gold digger as opposed to the domestic gold diggers you are trying to escape. Except it's worse because not only will you end up paying for *her*, but you'll most likely end up having to pay for/sponsor *her whole family.*

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not to mention being unable to have a conversation with your wife

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#78

You may be shocked by this, but the purpose of life is not to be entertained by something/someone

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What does that have to do with Americans specifically? That is more just a human thing, regardless of country...🤨

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The bad: you talk too loud in public (in restaurants particularly) and it’s obnoxious. You dress poorly and often look garish and gauche. You have poor food education. You need to stop wearing baseball hats everywhere and particularly indoors- it’s bizarre and a faux pas. We also find it peculiar that you feel the need to tell so much personal information /life story to strangers and colleagues from the get go when making small talk. We also find you very consumeristic and over the top (a bit of this may be some jealousy at American spending power and large American homes…)

The good: your open communication style can also be quite endearing and refreshing. Your friendliness and willingness to make small talk is nice. I prefer to work with Americans because I find them productive, efficient, but kind and fun.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hey what’s wrong with my Arizona Diamondbacks baseball cap. ? The y were the youngest team to make it to the series in 2001. That was against the Yankees. I miss Randy and Curt pitching and watching Gonzo in the field. Good times. Miss the old teal and purple le team colors. So hang on buddy, what’s wrong with my cap representing my favorite baseball team. ??? Lol

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